Kristina Herrick
Classical Music HostKristina Herrick was an on-air host for FM89's Clearly Classical and the Traffic and Music Manager for the station. She retired in 2015. An expert in early music of the pre-Barqoue era, Kristina was also the host of the award winning program In the Mode. She is a talented musician who plays the gamba and is a member of the board of directors of the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concert Series.
Kristina traces In the Mode’s roots to her early days of studying voice, when she discovered that her own was best suited to this type of music. “I wanted to expose listeners to the new recordings of early music that are available,” she said. It’s not necessarily for those schooled in music, she noted. “There has been a lot of research done, using literature and paintings, to figure out what the pieces would have sounded like in their own time. It’s a lot of fun—and a lot of listening—putting the music into a coherent show with a focus.” It’s obvious that she enjoys it, and the accolades from listeners prove that they love it too.
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Next time on In the Mode, music from the court of Maximilian II of Hapsburg who was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 to 1576. Music was an essential part of…
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In the last program of the series featuring Trio Medieval, the women investigate their Scandinavian roots, with some medieval and later folk songs. They…
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We’ll hear modern music on the usually early music program In the Mode next time. Again featuring Trio Mediaeval, singing a Mass written specifically for…
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Trio Medieval with English and French music of the 13th and 14th centuries next time on In the Mode, some very early music, the earliest that we have a…
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In the Mode will continue to feature "Trio Mediaeval", one Swedish and two Norwegian women, again with a mix of medieval and modern music. The early music…
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The next few programs of In the Mode will feature Trio Mediaeval. Next Sunday the Scandinavian women sing some very old-- and some very new sacred music…
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“Ave Maris Stella”, Hail, Star of the sea is a plainsong Vespers hymn to Mary. It was especially popular in the Middle Ages and settings of the text have…
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Next time on In the Mode we’ll hear music with roots back to the sibyls of antiquity. The Hilliard Ensemble sings Prophetiae Sibyllarum by Orlando di…
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Vocal music by Henry Purcell next time on In the Mode. He lived only 36 years, but wrote a lot of incredible diverse music, considered the most original…
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Vocal music by Henry Purcell next time on in the Mode. He lived only 36 years, but wrote a lot of incredible diverse music, considered the most original…